Eee PC 1000H Runs Windows 7 Well — Here is a confession: I am getting pretty tired of netbooks running Windows XP. So when we got our Windows 7 Beta disc at PDC earlier this week, I couldn't wait to get it running on a netbook. — This morning we loaded Windows 7 Ultimate (Pre-Beta) on an ASUS Eee PC 1000H.

Is Google Playing Chicken With the Justice Department? — Are Google and Yahoo thinking of walking of away from their controversial search advertising deal, as reported in an amusingly hedged report in The Wall Street Journal last night? — How's this for covering your bases in a story …

Would You Pay $162 a Year for All the Music You Can Eat? — That's the offer, sort of, being made by something called Datz Music Lounge. — The details, from MusicWeek (via Coolfer): You give the company 100 British pounds, and for the next year you can download all the music you want.

Microsoft's other new platform: Live Framework — LOS ANGELES—While it was Windows Azure that got much of the attention, Microsoft also released another important platform at this week's Professional Developers Conference. — Microsoft's Live Framework is essentially the developer piece of Live Mesh.

Tesla sees new financing, founder offers support — Tesla Motors Inc expects to close a financing round of over $20 million from existing investors as soon as next week to bolster a cash balance now at $9 million, said Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of the electric car start-up.

Improvements to Ads Quality — We're always working on improvements that will help us show the most relevant ads to our searchers, and we're excited to tell you that we'll soon introduce two changes designed to enhance how we calculate Quality Score and rank ads.

No Opera Mini for the iPhone — It seems that the engineers at Opera developed a version of Opera Mini that would run on the iPhone (and the iPod touch), but this browser will never see light of day because Apple rejected it from the App Store. … Well that sucks.

The New Xbox Experience with Netflix — Netflix Week continues (and we're not even done yet)... This morning, the New Xbox Experience (NXE) was delivered to my console. After quickly creating a non-representative (i.e. slender) avatar, I jumped right into Netflix.

Experimental Monkeys Now Available — We often talk about the growing number of interesting SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers. Many of the applications live in the Yahoo! Search Gallery, but quite a few aren't accepted for various reasons.

Microsoft's Mac unit gets new boss — Microsoft said Friday that it is changing the leadership of its Macintosh Business Unit, the group responsible for Office for Mac. — Eric Wilfrid, a product unit manager in the division, will succeed Craig Eisler, who is moving to a role elsewhere …